The Cloud Platform pipelines feature is a continuous delivery tool to automate development workflows for applications hosted by Cloud Platform. With the pipelines feature, you can complete the following actions:
drush make
to assemble your application’s
components and dependencies.The Cloud Platform pipelines feature executes the instructions you provide, transforming application source code into a build artifact which you can then test and deploy. Here is how the Cloud Platform pipelines feature works:
pipelines-build-[BRANCHNAME]
, to a build branch in your application’s
Cloud Platform Git repository, which you can deploy programmatically or
manually. Other repositories can’t be targets.pipelines status
and logs
commands.For a list of software available in your container, and resource limits on pipelines jobs, see Resources for containers and pipelines jobs.
The Cloud Platform pipelines feature is available as an add-on for Cloud Platform Enterprise and Site Factory subscribers, and requires Cloud Platform CD on Cloud Platform. To obtain the Cloud Platform pipelines feature for your subscription, contact your Account Manager.
The Cloud Platform pipelines feature is available as a continuous integration tool for Site Factory subscribers. When configuring the pipelines feature for an Site Factory, be aware of the following issues:
Use the following general steps to start using the Cloud Platform pipelines feature for your website development and testing:
Confirm your Cloud Platform account’s role has the Execute pipelines permission. You may also need the Add an environment permission.
Note for Site Factory subscribers
These permissions must be assigned through the Cloud Platform teams and permissions system, and not the Site Factory Management Console.
Optional: Connect your application to an external Git repository.
Start a pipeline job in the Cloud Platform user interface or the command-line interface.
Important
The pipelines feature executes subsequent jobs using the credentials of the user who first executes a pipelines build. For more information on how to update to another user, see User permission issues.